Poptimists Readers Poll No.1: BEST THING TO DANCE TO

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

LET THE POLL COMMENCE. I'll be posting a couple of these every weekday. First is "Best To Dance To", which unlike last year actually had several things getting nominations from different people so I barely had to use the randomiser Poptimizer.



[Poll #1105403]

All the other categories are STILL OPEN and you are encouraged to vote: http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/489167.html

Comments

[koganbot]

This is insanely difficult, the choices being so great. So far "Crank That" is in trouble, prob'ly because, like me, everyone's afraid of the steps. Perhaps there could be a mashup version of "Gimme More" and "Umbrella" where the dancers are divided into britneys and rihannas, and the britneys hit the rihannas with umbrellas.

I've not actually heard Rogue Trader. Off to the Internets.

[koganbot]

Perhaps initially the rihannas carry the umbrellas onto the dance floor, the britneys wobble around for several seconds in response, then snatch the umbrellas.

Historical sources of the umbrella dance (part one)

[koganbot]

Don Allred gives notes the historical sources from which the umbrella dance derives: "This seems like a radical advance on handbag house, in which girls would dance around a pile of handbags (not safe to leave them at the tables)."

[lastclearchance.livejournal.com]

"Crank That" is also in trouble because the implicit locale of the dancing in the poll is "in a club or somesuch, or else by yourself or with friends" not "on youtube". The Soulja Boy is (not necessarily generally, but enough to diminsih its chances in the poll) too prescribed for the former and too performative for the latter,